Trump had a rocky road to the nomination. The Never Trump movement attempted to steal away the votes necessary to make Trump the official Republican nominee. Colorado delegates filed a motion that would free delegates from any state instructions they received related to the primary process.

The Never Trump movement culminated in the refusual of former Presidential challenger Ted Cruz to endorse Trump as the candidate. Trump experienced lagging Republican support in the months running into the Republican convention. Trump’s fundraising numbers were way down in May, but did much better in June.

Next week is the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Trump’s SuperPACS have plans to use ad campaigns to dominate the news cycle during the convention, and hope to translate Trump’s momentum into a reliable lead.

Since the poll was an online-based poll, the traditional margin of error does not apply. Ipsos calculated what they called the “credibility interval” to be 3.9. That is well within the gap of the poll, meaning it is possible that Trump is actually in the lead.

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About the AuthorRusty Weiss

Rusty Weiss is a freelance journalist focusing on the conservative movement and its political agenda. He has been writing conservatively charged articles for several years in the upstate New York area, and his writings have appeared in the Daily Caller, American Thinker, FoxNews.com, Big Government, the Times Union, and the Troy Record. He is also Editor of one of the top conservative blogs of 2012, the Mental Recession.